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Your Top Five... Boring Spectator Sports

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,024
in Other Football and Sports
On the back of the tennis is boring thread I thought we could broaden things out a little.

Show Jumping - A bunch of pompous-arsed pratts testing their nags to see which is the least afraid of heights. Ridiculous.
Crown Green Bowling - Thankfully I haven't seen this in ages. Any 'sport' that you can play whilst smoking a pipe isn't a sport.
Tennis - Swingball for the middle classes.
Basketball - Too many points, games decided on misses rather than actully scoring (or whatevery they call putting a ball through a hoop).
Golf - Ball gets hit. Ball goes up in the sky. Watch the clouds for a few seconds. Ball lands on grass. A complete and utter dullfest.
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    Handball
    F1
    Gymnastics
    Synchronised Swimming
    UFC
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    Chess
    Tiddlywinks
    Wheelchair Tennis
    F1
    Triathlon
  • DeeBee
    DeeBee Posts: 1,033
    Cricket x 5
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,244
    Golf
    curling
    baseball
    Swimming
    Show jumping
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    Stig said:

    On the back of the tennis is boring thread I thought we could broaden things out a little.

    Show Jumping - A bunch of pompous-arsed prats testing their nags to see which is the least afraid of heights. Ridiculous.
    F1- How many hours long is this?
    Tennis - Swingball for the middle classes.
    Basketball - Too many points, games decided on misses rather than actually scoring (or whatever they call putting a ball through a hoop).
    Golf - Ball gets hit. Ball goes up in the sky. Watch the clouds for a few seconds. Ball lands on grass. A complete and utter dullfest.

    Slight correction Stig and you are there. I believe you can have a beer whilst bowling.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,223
    Archery
    Shooting
    Dressage
    Croquet
    Boules
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    Can't say I find any sport boring. I appreciate the time and skill that goes into being at the very top.
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    F1: a 200 mph car park nothing happens until they change the tyres and everyone gets excited. Fans are the biggest anoraks in sport
    Swimming: Dull, Dull, Dull
    Baseball: Unfathomable rules, played by fatties
    Dressage: teaching a horse how to dance.....how silly is that
    Curling: A cross between a game and housework
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Ice Hockey, can't follow the puck so boxing is better.
    Tennis, it goes here, it comes back, it goes there, it comes back duh, very very dull.
    Synchronised swimming, only recommended as a spectator if you're in the water with them.
    Basketball, you have to be 10 foot tall, and the only surprise is if they miss, not if they score.
    Show jumping, would be improved if the position of horse and rider were reversed.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    F1
    Wrestling
    Fishing
    Fencing
    Sailing
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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Speedway/F 1: after the first corner where the excitement ?

    American Football: Mobile chess between the adverts.

    Baseball: Rounders Between the adverts.

    Ice Hockey: Mass fighting on ice, like the boys on a Friday night.

    Show jumping: Esoteric and Colourful(come on you reds) but still boring.

  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Horse Racing: If you're not betting on it, whats the point?

    Golf: Fell asleep just now even typing the word (but much more enjoyable to play it must be said)

    Basketball: Takes the term 'end to end' too far.

    Fishing: Remember seeing 5 mins of this on Sky Sports. Sitting watching a bit of water for hours on end.

    Bowls: That clip of the Pharrell Williams song being played at the World Bowls cracks me up:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/bowls/25885158
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Cricket
    Baseball
    Basketball
    Synchronised Swimming
    Diving
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    F1
    American Football
    Basketball
    Rugby
    Cricket
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,368
    American Football, Baseball, Cricket
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Wrestling (Choreographed pratting about)
    Horse Racing (Maybe if you bet or you're a jockey, otherwise?)
    Basketball (I utterly fail to see the appeal in watching each team consecutively run the length of the court and score - the only surprise is when they don't)
    Speedway - (Little boys on their bikes)
    Rugby League - (Fat, northern homoerotic mud wrestling)
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,487
    F1
    Basketball
    Baseball
    American football
    Horse racing
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    F1
    Sailing
    Archery
    Climbing
    Baton Twirling

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Italian Football
    Womens Football
    Womens Cricket
    Chess
    Italian Womens Football or cricket......
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,716
    Basketball - tall people with squeaky shoes
    baseball - just don't understand it
    American football - I like all the colour and pomp of it all but the actual game never gets going.
    majority of athletics - all the stuff that happened inside the Olympic stadium pretty much.
    hunting
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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Basketball is without doubt the shittest sport in the world.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    All_Thaid_Up said:

    I appreciate the time and skill that goes into being at the very top.

    Filth
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,737
    edited July 2015
    American Football
    Horse Racing ( unless I have a bet on on it )
    Synchronised Swimming
    Dressage
    Basketball

    Just missing out are The Boat Race , F1 & Baseball
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    At least the boat face is a decent piss up if you go down to the river

    Went to a Sandown park the other week and the horse racing was much duller than I expected

  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    F1 you have to be missing something
    American Football
    Gaelic Football
    Volleyball
    Underwater Hockey
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,334
    Golf
    Basketball
    American Football
    Horse racing
    Swimming
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Rugby Union manages to be both the most boring and the most loathsome & all my hatred is reserved for it. Maybe rowing and track cycling too. Water polo as one that seems like it might be fun but isn't. Oh, I'm on 4 now? Ok, baseball then
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    f1 in its current format
    cycling. theres nothing to actually see beyond a twenty second whizz-by.
    basketball
    the marathon
    beach volleyball (just kidding...)
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Basketball (netball made easy)
    Baseball (rounders)
    American "football"
    Diving
    Cycling
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    Cycling. Always cycling. Hate it. Then rugby (all forms).

    My team at work was swallowed up into the oxymoronical 'Content and Cycling' department, and our boss doesn't give two shits about content. On our away day this week, we had to get a talk by one of Dave Brailsford's mates and watch the TDF for an hour. I was furious. "Oh you are in the movies editorial team are you? Let me tell you about the cobblestones of southern France..."

    No, really, don't. I stopped listening three hours ago and have been enjoying a daydream about saving this pub from a terrorist attack.

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